GSC locality 89285, Survey Peak Fm., Biozone A, Alberta Canada - Dean 1989: Tremadoc, Canada
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Olenidae
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Kingstoniidae
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| Country: | Canada |
State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: |
52.9° North, 118.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 101.7° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian-Ordovician |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Ordovician |
*Epoch: | Tremadoc |
| Key time interval: | Tremadoc |
Zone: | A |
| Age range of interval: | 485 - 477.7 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields |
| Formation: | Survey Peak |
Member: | Putty Shale |
| Local bed: | 11.8m above base of member |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
| Stratigraphy comments: The deposits comprise detrital belts near the margin of Laurentia. Part of the Ordovician Ibex Series. |
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
| Collection method comments: Brachiopods are mentioned to occur in the formation, but their placement and lower taxa names are not given. An index of A to M is used to designate Ordovician biozones (Ross, 1949, 1951a, p.27-29) for the Wilcox Pass Area. |
| Database number: | 11024 |
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky |
Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi |
Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-07-09 10:43:11 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2001-07-09 10:43:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 4045. | | W. T. Dean. 1989. Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta). Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (389)1-141 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Borkow] |